This document discusses the potential for server-side JavaScript frameworks and hosting, noting that while JavaScript is widely used for client-side development, there is currently no dominant server-side JavaScript framework analogous to what Rails did for Ruby. It suggests that if a solid virtualization environment for JavaScript were developed, it could become very successful, similar to BEA or JBoss. The agenda covers an introduction to server-side JavaScript concepts and potential frameworks, including one being proposed that would use JavaScript for the API, web server, application server and data storage.

1. Serverside
Javascript
Hope & Opportunity
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Intro CK S A Future SSJS
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Framework
Mário Valente – Codebits 2008

2. http://softwareas.com/
server-side-javascript-hope-and-opportunity
“The real gap is in server-side
frameworks and hosting.
There’s no “killer app”
Javascript server, a la what
Rails did to Ruby.”
“If they can come up with a
solid virtualisation environment
for Javascript, they may be on
to a big winner. They could be
the BEA or JBoss of 2015”

3. Agenda
● WTF (15 min)
● RTFM (15 min)
● ZOMG (15 min)
● FAIL/FTW (15 min)

4. WTF
● Architecture
● Design Patterns
● Models
● 3-tier
● MVC
● Separation of concerns
● KISS/DRY

5. WTF?!

6. WTF?!

7. WTF?!

8. WTF?!

9. WTF...?

10. RTFM
“Javascript will save us all”
● JS on the client
● JS on the server
● JS on the DB
● Functional goodness
● JSON all the way down
● REST all the way down

11. RTFM
Javascript on the server
● Pure(SpiderMonkey,V8,Squirrelfish)
● Rhino/JVM (Jaxer, AppJet, 10gen)
Javascript on the DB
● CouchDB (JS views)
● Other OO/XML/doc oriented DBs

12. RTFM
Pure (Spidermonkey)
● jslibs
● jsext
● jsdb
● No standards!
● Killer app/Rails
●Opportunity/JBoss2015

13. RTFM
Javascript on the server

14. ZOMG!
Server side Javascript
Web Framework
● Standard API (file I/O,etc)
● JS based JSON doc DB
● JS appserver
● Pure HTML templating

15. JS
W Z
T
F O
?! M
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!
JS/JSON/REST all the way down!!

16. Intr
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ZOMG! ST
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A Future JS Web Framework BU
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BRANCA (HTML templating)
CIMBALINO (API/web/appserver)
BICA (JSON storage)

17. FIM
FAIL/FTW ?
mfvalente@gmail.com